At 01:47 PM 9/18/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >What is xinetd used for. I thought it was used to start services but >have read on some newsgroups to avoid it. Does it work with the startup >files in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ folder, is it actually a step up from those >scripts and a possible replacement. How do the two work in relation to >each other.
inetd (not a typo. keep reading) is itself a sort of service; it listens on many ports, and when a connection is made to a port it is listening to, it passes that connection on to the actual service for that port (as specified in /etc/inetd.conf). It's usually called the "superserver". This concise description leaves out some details; reading the man page for inetd will fill in the details. xinetd is an alternate implementation of roughly the same functionality. It has some additional features, and I've read some problems. Since I 've never tried it myself, I can't intelligently discuss its merits relative to regular inetd. inetd and xinetd have nothing (well, almost nothing) to do with the boot/init scripts. Those scripts do need to start services, so one of them will start inetd or xinetd for you, but other than that, they are quite separate. >On a side not what is up with all the filename.d's. That's a pretty vague question, Paul. If you mean the various /etc/something_or_other.d listings, they are usually directories, not files (well, in Unix/Linux, there is a sense in which *everything* is a file, including the keyboard and the screen, but let's put that aside for now). The modern convention is for programs to create /etc/myname.d directories and put any systemwide config files they need in there (user-specific config files go in users' home directories). If you mean something else, please try asking again, a bit less elliptically this time. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
